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Run for Trey provides for others

Mackenzie Juedes, Community Journalist October 8, 2023

Treyton Kilar, 6, was killed in a car crash by a drunk driver on Sep 2, 2010. While he isn't around here with his friends and family, the community got together and made the Run for Trey.  Every year...

Runners take off at Treyton’s Field of Dreams to begin the 11th Annual Run for Trey in Whitewater, Wisconsin Oct. 10, 2021.

The run of their lives

Dauntae Green, Managing Editor October 10, 2021

The feeling of fun is in the air with huge smiles on everyone's face. It is time to celebrate the life of Treyton Kilar with so many activities to remember and cherish him - for who he was and is in the...

Members of the Whitewater community take part in the Run for Trey event.

Run for Trey fundraiser brings community together

Brenda Echeverria, Staff Reporter October 21, 2019

On Sunday, Oct. 13, students and community members joined together to celebrate the ninth annual Run for Trey event, a fundraising event held to remember Treyton Kilar, who was 6 years old when he was...

Organization encourages students to donate

March 11, 2015

  March 11, 2015 Kimberly Wethal   UW-Whitewater Student Safety Organization President Robert Krien has thought of a way to prove to the Whitewater community that the university isn’t...

Treyton's Field of Dreams opens after four years of hard work

Treyton’s Field of Dreams opens after four years of hard work

October 8, 2014

Oct. 8, 2014 By Emily Leclair   In 2010, Treyton Kilar was killed in a car accident when the vehicle he was in was hit by a drunken driver. After 4 years of community fundraising, love and...

Zumba with Warhawks

Zumba: A new way to stay fit

October 15, 2013

    By Amanda Ong   Enter the Kachel Center studio on a Wednesday night and you will hear the rhythm of pulsing music and see a room full of dancers following the intricate steps...

Final donations made to 'Treyton Kilar's Field of Dreams'

Final donations made to ‘Treyton Kilar’s Field of Dreams’

February 20, 2013

  Six-year-old Treyton Kilar was killed by a drunk driver Sept. 2, 2010 at the intersection of Highway 20 and County N near East Troy. In remembrance of their son, who was a baseball fanatic, the...

Kilars approaching final goal of $450,000 for ‘Trey’s Field’

February 8, 2012
Over a year after losing a son and brother in Treyton to an alcohol-related car accident, the Kilar family is getting closer to seeing the “Treyton Kilar Field of Dreams” become a reality. The family has raised about $315,000 of the roughly $450,000 needed to build the little-league field in Treyton’s memory.

Kilar family represents community well

October 12, 2011

In early September 2010, a story came across several media sources about a 6-year-old Whitewater boy who was killed by a drunk driver. Many people, including myself, didn’t think much of it at the...

Mike Kilar throws out first pitch (photo gallery)

October 11, 2011

Mike Kilar, Treyton's father, was given the opportunity to throw out the first pitch at the Milwaukee Brewers second game of the National League Championship Series against the St. Louis Cardinals. The...

A mother’s instinct: The Mary Kilar story

September 14, 2011
Determination is a word that can be thrown around and overused at times. It’s a word that may not mean much to most people. Don’t tell that to Mary Kilar though, as determination has much more than little meaning to her. Determination is what helped her become a two-time All-American volleyball player at UW-Whitewater. It’s what helped her get through troubling times as a single mother out of college.

20-year sentence issued for Treyton Kilar accident

May 11, 2011
The East Troy man who was found guilty in the alcohol-related car accident that killed 6-year-old Treyton Kilar will spend the next 20 years behind bars.
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